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Image from page 26 of "Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity /" (1921)
Identifier: indiansofmanhatt00skin_0
Title: Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity /
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925.
Subjects: Manhattan Indians Indians of North America
Publisher: [New York] : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization


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are usually chipped tools presenting an elongatednarrow blade and a considerably swollen or expanded base, suitable forgrasping in the hand. In some cases the base was absent and those wereprobably hafted in wood. Specimens whose blades have a square orrectangular cross-section are very rare. The finding of cores left inhalf-drilled objects shows the use of a hollow drill, and it has been sug-gested that a hard hollow reed used with sand and water on a soft stonewould produce this effect. To bear out this assertion, it has been re-ported that a half-drilled implement has been found outside this area onthe upper Hudson in which the remains of the reed drill were found in thecavity left by its action. Rough Stone Articles. Hammer stones. These vary from simple pebbles picked up andused in the rough, showing merely a battered edge or edges acquired byuse, to the pitted forms. They are generally mere pebbles with a pitpecked on two opposite sides, perhaps to aid in grasping with the thumb

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DRILLS. SCRAPERS AND OTHER OBJECTS 26 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS and forefinger. Some have battered edges, but many have not, suggest-ing, when round and regular, a use as gaming or Chunke stones, or asimplements used only in pounding some rather soft substance. Hammer-stones, pitted on one side only, and others with many pits on all sides,occur. These latter may have had some special use, and are not to beconfounded with the large, flat, slab-like stones having pits only on oneside, found in other regions, and perhaps used as receptacles for holdingnuts while cracking them. While these are common in the Iroquoianarea, they are unknown here. Large stones, single or double-pitted, resembling over-sized hammer-stones, occur. These may have been used as anvils in chipping flint or forlike purposes. Grooved clubs or mauls, also showing use as hammers, are found.These are rare and are usually either rough pebbles, grooved for hafting,as in the case of the grooved axe, or grooved axes,


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